Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Abraham Verghese is vice chair of education at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He's actually an expert in bedside ...

Abraham Verghese, an infectious disease specialist, says doctors would benefit from understanding that to every patient, illness is a story. His most recent book is the novel “Cutting for Stone.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Abraham Verghese "understands that even when a disease cannot be cured, the person with the disease can be healed," Winfrey ...

There’s a large whiteboard to the side of Abraham Verghese, acclaimed author and, by day, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He swivels in his chair to point to it over Zoom. This is ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: author. His novel "The Covenant of Water" (Grove/Atlantic), a multi-generational ...

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one doctor's mission to promote a hands-on approach to healing and diagnosis. He speaks with doctor and author Abraham Verghese. Finally tonight: a ...

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Abraham Verghese has all the credentials and degrees befitting a professor at Stanford Medical School. But he is best known and acclaimed for his writing — two best-selling memoirs ...

In 2016, President Barack Obama presented the National Humanities Medal to physician and author Abraham Verghese in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex Wong. The future of American medicine is locked in ...

Stanford School of Medicine professor Abraham Verghese, the author of New York Times bestseller "Cutting for Stone," will receive the 2015 National Humanities Medal conferred by the White House, ...

There's a lesson that comes up a couple of times in Abraham Verghese's best-selling 2009 novel, "Cutting for Stone." The experienced doctor -- the teacher/father figure -- asks his student/son: "What ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese "understands that even when a disease cannot be cured, the person with the disease can be healed," Winfrey tells PEOPLE of their new six-part series Vanessa Etienne is a Staff ...